nanny:
(plural: ‘nannies‘ male: ‘manny’; plural: ‘mannies’ — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a little girl with her nanny
an elderly woman who looks after/nurse the children of other people as a job;
a woman, usually young and energetic, who is professionally trained to handle children;
a person who treats people, especially treating youngsters, like children, often being overprotective;
(less commonly and jocularly) a young woman who acts like an old woman;
(less commonly) a child’s name for its grandmother,
the modern day trained nanny
A conscientious mother doesn’t like to employ a nanny to look after her children, but a mother who is also a career woman must have a nanny to take care of her young children while she goes out for work.
The little girl rushed to her nanny when she was scared.
Most of the uneducated or less educated female immigrants in the developed countries take up jobs as nannies and some stay as nannies in the same family for generations, nursing the babies of the babies they nursed before!
